Everjoice Win
@EverjoiceWin
Followers
11K
Following
78K
Media
4K
Statuses
100K
Defender of Secular Spaces. Feminist. Sometimes a writer. Sometimes a reader.
Joined January 2010
OFFICIAL. *EJ FLIGHT CONFIRMED*. Airlink: Jhb to Byo. Dep. Johannesburg 10.40am. Arrive Byo: 12 noon. Friday 13 March 2025. So, Team Byo and all others who can, let's meet ku Airport at 12 noon and accompany EJ to Gweru thereafter. 🙏🏿🙏🏿.
2
38
92
How do you self-quarantine in an informal-settlement? Or in a household full of people? How do you ‘stock-up’, when you live from hand to mouth? What will business closures mean for daily/hourly waged workers? Asking for a continent.
200
8K
19K
What are the advert Oscars called? Give them one please!
37
1K
3K
Dear @ZBCNewsonline The State does not, ‘donate’, nor ‘chip in’, to address a natural disaster. No. The State is using our money, our taxes, to deliver a response to citizens. They are doing exactly what we expect them to do. Thank you muchly.
90
610
2K
He would have been 55 today. We remember with love & sadness #LuckyDube What is your favourite song from our very own?
192
138
812
Everjoice Win appointed as Professor of Practice | SOAS University of London.
177
101
744
My day is done. It is done! .It’s been an incredibly fascinating 15 year journey, in an incredibly wonderful INGO. When I joined @actionaid as the 1st global lead on women’s rights, I didn’t know this would be my longest consensual relationship, ever. Today, I drop the mic/
78
74
705
Is it not possible to draw/photograph unencumbered black women? No baby on the back, or another one holding a hand, no huge package on the head/back/arm? Just black women as individuals? Like how we depict everyone else. Or shall we be forever Poor. Powerless. Pregnant. Burdened?.
24
308
505
No. Douggie. No! You can’t revise history like this. You were NOT present when we formed the NCA. Several of the men you mention were NOT part of it either. We are still alive. All of us founders of NCA. Tinyarewo. Thanks.
5. In 1998 together with Morgan Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube,Tendai Biti, Lovemore Madhuku, David Chimhini etc we formed the National Constitutional Assembly whose task was to advocate for a new democratic and people-driven constitution of Zimbabwe.
7
168
395
When all this is over, we must have a deep convo about rural Zimbabweans: our perceptions & assumptions about them, their logic, what drives them, their connection to the urban & even diaspora & vice versa. One day. When the toxicity levels in our body politic recede.
52
192
379
One thing I know for sure, is, as long as the sun rises from the East, being a woman in this world is HARD. My womanhood, this body I reside in, will always be used against me, when patriarchy wants to punish, silence, & keep me in my place, this body is the first line of attack/.
22
168
374
This👇🏾is how you write a headline.
Historic Enablers of Sexual Abuse Debate Whether Joe Biden Can Get Communion
7
104
349
My dear young black sisters & children, I hope you are learning from this teaching moment. When we tell you, you say we exaggerate. You say we are old & bitter. Ja. Well. No. Fine. We are probably that & more. Be your own person. Carry your own money, in your own bra. Because/.
33
153
346
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, .Turn off the bloody internet!.Prevent the dog from barking, .Silence the pianos .Let aeroplanes circle, scribbling . on the sky ‘Tuku Is Dead’. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; .For nothing now can ever come to any good.
20
119
299
A social justice struggle is NOT a neat little project with very clear steps, one after another, leading to predictable change. Rather, it is messy and can even seem chaotic. Oftentimes, it is 3 steps back leading to 1 huge step forward. Leadership, passion, vision matter most.
9
137
289
Please Zimbabweans, tell me our Minister of Defense did not say that stuff about Corona being retribution for sanctions? Tell me, it’s ‘voice-shopped’, if such exists? Please tell me she didn’t? What level of idiocy does this regime breed nhaimi? No! No! No! Lawd come down.
54
46
284
Why are they calling Political violence in parts of Zimbabwe in the 1980s ‘disturbances?’ .Disturbances are kids throwing little pebbles or upsetting rubbish bins on New Year’s Eve! Calculated murder & assassination of thousands of people is not a ‘disturbance’.
16
113
263
Without a hint of shame, the 🇿🇼 regime now wants to blame citizens for the COVID mess. Kwanai. You are the ones who consistently gathered people every day. You got the ZTV footage, go through it. Slowly. Ask yourselves why? Haikona kuda kuti vhundusira. Taka vhunduka kare.
14
48
270
Attention NGO folks! We have a new phrase. Build out. In a sentence; We will BUILD out a portfolio of work, for this UNPRECEDENTED time. We will PIVOT, towards DECOLONISATION of aid & INTERSECTIONAL feminism, as well as LOCALISATION. Don’t forget DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION. 🤓.
26
65
264
Remembering these two who died a year apart, on this day.
6
56
263
I lit a candle today. For #DrPeter .For #PaulChizuze disappeared since 2012.For #DorothyGona a trade-unionist, disappeared since 1991/92. For all the women and men of 🇿🇼, whose whereabouts are still unknown .I lit a candle for truth.I lit a candle for justice.I lit it for ❤️
6
98
251
If your week was as bad as mine. If you are grieving. If you are in a bad patch. I am sharing my (Mummy’s), flowers with you. Big hugs friend, stranger, human. We will get through this.
25
16
212
I will keep saying this: the problems in Zimbabwe do not require complicated economics, or complex political strategies. We have a Hearts & Minds problem. Our VALUES are messed up. We need to fix what we think of & how we treat one another. Now go have your ‘dialogues’, on that.
19
54
220
It is very clear that the cut-and-paste approach to COVID-19 by several African governments is a bad idea. Response must be customised to your own realities; Unemployment. Poverty. Hunger. Informal & precarious precarious work. Arresting &shooting citizens is not the answer.
13
71
212
It’s such a dif’cult being a Zimbabwean woman at this moment. We were told to wait until racism was eliminated, so that we could talk sexism. Ok. Independence came, we were told to wait till the racial inequalities were addresssed. ok. Then came democracy struggles of the 90s.
10
127
204
Last one I promise: Our first black 🇿🇼anaesthetist dies and nary a mention on any of the news channels? Zilch? Because he is in the wrong part of the country? Or we just don’t know him? Rest in Peace Dr. Sipho Zwana. We probably never deserved you.
9
79
202
Today we celebrate 30 years of the #16DaysofActivism campaign. When 24 of us met in that cold week at the @CWGL_Rutgers long ago, we had a bold vision- to bring feminists & their movements together around #VAW, globally. Little did we imagine we would be where we are today!
20
112
187
My dear people. Please stop this habit of stripping widowers of all household goods. No tradition says such. Just pure GREED. Nonsense!.
20
114
189
My wonderful friends, colleagues, Comrades. Thank you each one of you for your lovely messages of congratulations. Am thrilled. Humbled.Grateful. Loved! Thank you today, for holding me up yesterday & in the 3years to come. I hope I can live up to the honour. Thank you @CGS_SOAS/.
19
14
182
Sit down. Keep quiet. You know nothing. Don’t try to be too clever. It’s ok not to know. You are not in control. It’s too complicated. You got it wrong.You are not in the army. Don’t lie. Watch. Listen. Breathe. Don’t Tweet!.
11
89
168
‘Natural disasters and buildings do not kill people. Poverty, exclusion, class, race, gender inequality and bad governance do’. I read that somewhere. I did.
13
61
168
Violence is violence. There is never any justification for it. Ever. Every human being has rights. Nothing justifies violation of those fundamental human rights. It’s the duty of all Governments to uphold, & protect every person’s human rights. Simple. No ‘cleverness’, required.
8
56
164
He would’ve turned 57 today. We remember Lucky Dube with sadness. Was the case ever solved?
13
29
153
There are two things you don’t debate with someone; How cold/hot they feel. Everyone’s body is different. If I say I am freezing, I am freezing. Let’s not debate it please. The second is how someone FEELS. Not thinks. Feels. If I feel upset, I feel it. If I feel sad, that’s it!.
7
45
156
Dear ED & Patrick .All I want is: .Wimpy on Silundika to reopen. Happy Days to serve banana-split again. Greatermans to reopen. ZUPCO to function again. Bata factory at full capacity. KwaMsopero on full steam. Chachacha Hotel chips. Is that F***ing too much to ask!!!!.
27
50
151
My mother taught me that you don’t go to bed leaving your house bedraggled, case you have visitors at midnight. I was happily in bed. then her voice from heaven became too loud to ignore. I came down to straighten the cushions, & sweep the kitchen floor. Who else does this?.
26
12
154
So these folks expecting ED/ZANU to abandon it’s vanity projects because some marginalised young people died while trying to make a living- which part of this do you not get? .They. Do. Not. Care. It. Was. Never. For. Or. About. You.
4
59
154
Hamunga tamburi isu tiri pano. Heyo tsamba. Be safe people! .🤓
15
32
147
The moral of the story is, never take sides when people with power, (political, economic, military, religious, patriarchal etc), fight. Don’t. They know one another. They are all linked through very strong chains that are hidden from you & me. Stay away from their power-plays.
16
49
142
But nhai ZBC? You just showed us ED peeking out of his car window as he was driven along Harare-Chitungwiza highways. He did not stop, or get out! Then you call him a ‘listening Prez?’ 🤣🤣😊Kwanai mazvihwa. Who did he listen to? The sound of his own voice? Driver? Security? 🤷🏾♀️.
16
29
136
Eish. My father’s people ka? Here is a question on one of your radio stations; When a woman gets married should she change her mobile number? Overwhelming response from listeners was YES. What century cave have I just regressed into?.
41
38
142
One day, the system will remind you that you are just another woman/girl. That they have POWER and they will use it to crush you. Stay close. Stay focused. Stay woke. Be in solidarity. Because, only together can we make change happen.
6
37
138
So if the our government has funds to compensate folks, when am I getting mine? For loss of my pension? My savings? My Dad’s? My entire life in 🇿🇼Zim really. Who will compensate me?.
10
56
133
I am old enough to remember the denial, the lies, the criminal inaction by so many of our governments on the African continent, when HIV hit us. We wasted close to two decades & thousands of people. This feels like we are back in 1988. Blaming & laughing at ‘the other’. /.
5
75
131
Reuben Barwe just vaulted from 1980 to 1987 in retelling 🇿🇼 history. Jumped right over Gukurahundi! #Zvakaoma.
18
44
130
We told her she couldn’t operate as a one-woman-NGO. Urged her to stop talking AT people. She wasted months, fuel, and funds. lulling people into a false sense of security. Went up& down blaming so called ‘returnees’. Now all they can offer is conversations with a deity? Pathetic.
13
38
129
Dzidzai vanangu. Munhu oita mari yake yaanochengetera MuBra yake. Wove nebasa kana kamusika kako kokuti hapana anoti pwe! Mazvihwa? Izvi zvokuswero shaudhiwa navana vamwene, kumhanyisiwa nevana vavamwe sousina kumba kwako hayi bodo!.
19
48
133
My peoples! Thank you each one of you for beautiful messages. Turning 60 is huge, especially for my generation, which was gutted by HIV &AIDS. In my 30s all I wished was to get to 40. Now I am on extra time. I am grateful for love, support,and to science. Thank you so much. 🍷.
14
12
136
I will keep saying it till I can’t speak anymore. Government of Zimbabwe, running after so called ‘returnees’, and blaming them for COVID-19 is not an effective public health strategy. We get it. You feel a need to blame some ‘witches’. But this will not end well & backfire.What/.
11
56
131
Disasters are the new normal. Disasters are the new normal. Disasters are the old new normal.Preparedness. Preparedness. Preparedness. Response.Response.Resilience.Resilience.It’s the State’s PRIMARY responsibility.
9
43
131
1. When’s child/ren’s birthday?.2. What’s their Grade1 teacher’s name?.3. What’s their fave food?.4. Do they have any allergies?.5. What’s their besf friend’s name? .If you know the answers to all these, for all your children, whatevever age they are, HAPPY FATHERS’ DAY🍷.
23
40
129
Dear CIO. If you are going to send your spooks after me on Twitter, please make sure; a. They have a decently-credible name? Chaminuka 97833440 just won’t cut it. B. Make sure they are nice looking, pretty photo. I block at first sight. I am shallow like that. Thank you muchly.
10
17
131
As I enter my 59th year on this planet today, all I want is purple lipstick, 30minutes with Beres Hammond, oodles of good health, plus world peace and justice. Too much to ask? Ok, send Heidi mangoes then! .Please keep entertaining me on this street. You saved my life in 2023💜.
36
12
130
A month ago today I woke up an orphan. A real, orphan-orphan. I am now nobody’s child. All my life I had been defined through my parents. Actually, to be more precise, I was defined by my paternal grandparents. But that is a story for my memoirs. I was my parents’ child. Now/.
41
9
131
I was reminded last night that I hadn’t done one of my birthday threads. Well, here goes. These are mostly for my younger feminist friends/sisters. #10ThingsIKnowAt56 The operative word being I. Not ‘we!’ 👇🏾.
23
30
125
My gift to women younger than me on this street today: The same horrid words you use to reduce another woman to a vagina is exactly what they will do to you, the day you cross that (invisible), line. Always remember that. YOU are more than your vagina. You are a FULL human being.
4
57
126
Dear Comrades, friends, colleagues. Thank you so much for all your condolences messages. I saw my sister @Teldah & she is trying to be ok. Your love & support will carry our (huge), family through the many months & weeks to come. Please stay safe & blest. Big hugs.❤️❤️.
24
6
126
Why do 🇿🇼 radio stations bother with political talk shows? When folks call in with serious analysis & speaking truth, the hosts just say, ‘thanks for your call’, & skip to next call. No debate. No follow through. But if it’s about controlling women’s bodies! They come alive☹️.
15
32
120
In plagiarised manifesto, Nigeria's ruling APC pledges to 'keep America safe'.😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
27
86
122
Before the sun sets in all time-zones on this Mother’s Day, here is my annual PSA to all young women who have not had children, & may be thinking about it. Yeah, it is nice to get flowers, (burnt), breakfast in bed & their left-over sweeties. All those photos are really cute!/.
8
62
126
This is important. Listen up! Yes. You.
8
83
122
I will keep saying it- Christian fundamentalism is the biggest threat to the African continent👇🏿. We have to loudly call out & resist all these forces that are running rampant right in front of our eyes. Far too many of us are getting coopted.
8
77
116
Nhai veduwe, kana iwe une zvaunoda kunyora, nyora ka? Ko pafiwa pano vhunziwa mumwe kuti iwe uri kuchemerei, kana kuti iwe wakanyararirei here? Bodo. Iwe taura zvako. Ini ndotaura zvangu. Haazi makwikwi bodo. Kana mufunge.
10
29
119
I will say it again. RGM has never had anyone who loves him. He’s always been their access to whatever each of them wanted. His family included. If they loved him, they’d not subject him to such ridicule, expose his senility to the world like this. Pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic.
10
43
108
@1africa1love We don’t even have jingles on radio here in 🇿🇼. Our Health Minister busy smiling for cameras and telling us Corona is not here. Huge gatherings continue apace. No sense of a global pandemic whatsoever. In my other home, TV’s treating the returned folks from Wuhan as a spectacle.
11
21
106
I am slaughtering two chickens for this mzukuru! ❤️🔥🔥🍷
21
10
117
Everjoice Win, director of global engagement at ActionAid International, says:. “This historic moment is the culmination of years of campaigning by women trade unionists joined by women’s rights organisations around the world. We’re delighted. !’ . And now for ratification. .
We’re delighted @ilo has adopted a new global law to end violence and harassment at work. This is a historic moment, but there is more work to be done. Governments must urgently ratify the treaty to protect women workers.#ILO100 #STOPGBVatWork.
9
49
112
“It saddens me very deeply that some of the most racist, neo-liberal and outright white supremacist leaders and their kind, are today celebrating your death.’.Me. Quoting myself. @ElinorSisulu @1africa1love @NMukhia
19
52
114
The mangoes arrived from next door this morning. I welcomed them with an open heart & mouth.
13
6
115
I miss press conferences. Can someone please organise one? So many subjects to discuss: Why the pink ink won’t wash off? Who wore it better, cap or scarf? Is Bronte nicer than Rainbow Towers? Did Thulasizwe run faster than his camera person? Daytime or nighttime pressers? Go!.
16
31
110
@dragonflystux The same in most parts of the world, and certainly the case in the United States actually. And no, it is not since the beginning of time, whenever that was. It is like that because of all the systems built on inequality and injustice.
1
12
102
Focus on the Duty Bearer, i.e. The State. Civil society organisations or individual activists are not the duty-bearers. Human rights 001. Show your anger to the one/s with the power to uphold the law, or make new laws, & to hold rights violators accountable.
3
59
108
One of my mentors likes to say, as a leader, try not be EVERYWHERE. You are not MTN! (their strapline is, Everywhere you go). Sometimes, just let things go. Let people learn from their own mistakes. Let go. And I add, ‘it’ll all be alright on Monday morning’. #FeministLeadership.
2
29
107
E is for Everjoice Win – AFRICAN FEMINIST WOMANIST ARCHIVE
6
23
103
The moral of the story dear women is: If you divorce a man, walk away. Walk away with your entire soul & entire body. If you do it by halves, half in, half out, that same shite you walked away from will stick to you for the rest of your life. Watch. Learn. Thrive.
15
65
105
We are back with that unresolved issue. Are the mangoes on my side of the wall mine, or #14's?
68
25
107
He’d be 76 today! He left us an amazing musical legacy, most of which is so relevant today. Thank you for the inspiration & critical consciousness. We remember #RNM
4
26
107
@Just_Midzi The world is run by those who participate. Be present. Speak out, speak up. Seize the laptop, you will soon be known as the ‘expert’. Name yourself, they will always name you anyway. Never pour the tea. Don’t remove the jacket when making a presentation. Wear an uplifting bra!.
2
29
100
What you see today, i.e. a young girl forced to marry, get pregnant, & dies, is not an aberration! It is part of the same CONTINUUM. Female persons are not seen as fully human, with individual rights, choice, rights to control our own bodies. Yes. Those attitudes are widespread/.
1
31
95